Tawas(tawuz) City Elementary is located west of the tip of the thumb of Michigan, on the northwest shore of Saginaw Bay which is part of Lake Huron. "Huron" and "Tawas" are North American Indian names, but we do not have any "Indian" decendants going to school here. Our town was developed in the 1800's during the lumbering era, when huge White Pine trees were cut down to make lumber for the rapidly expanding United States.
In this school we have 4th grade through 6th grade. There are about 450 students all together. Mr Stoddard is the science teacher for all the fifth grade students. We are in what is called a departmental system of organization, which means we change classes all day long. We have six different teachers during the day, but stay with the same group of students all day. Mr. Stoddard choose to have his group participate in this project. We hope to hear back from some far away places.